[alxmdev]

I find the technology choice here very interesting, a desktop applet programmed with what I look at as mainly web technologies (JavaScript, JSON, Node, Webkit). It's impossible to ignore how the landscape has changed in the past 5 years and how web-style programming is slowly bleeding into spaces dominated by native applications.

When I first got into software development years ago with an eye for tools and games, I approached web programming as a stepping stone. I wonder what direction I would go if I were to start over today.

[woofyman]

I prefer to put as few layers of abstraction between me and the hardware as feasible. Maybe because the first part of my career was in embedded software.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Microsoft was way ahead of their time with this. Windows has supported HTML Applications and JavaScript scripts for decades.